[Mulgara-dev] Blank Node Assignment in Inserts

[Andrae Muys]

On 01/03/2008, at 2:25 AM, Alex Hall wrote:

> Andrae Muys wrote:
>>>>> I'm inclined to fix it, but I'm interested in opinions here.
>>>> I agree.  I will have potentially long-running transactions with
>>>> multiple insertions, and would prefer not to have to guarantee the
>>>> uniqueness of my variable names across the entire transaction.
>>> Agreed. We've currently got a hack where we have a counter  
>>> associated
>>> with each transaction to ensure this uniqueness, and I wouldn't mind
>>> getting rid of it.
>>
>> Ok, then it gets fixed.  Anyone who finds the current inadvertent
>> behaviour useful should submit a feature request for us to find an
>> alternative way of achieving the effect. Certainly any ability to
>> unify blank-nodes across inserts in a single transaction should also
>> allow us to use them in queries - so the current behaviour is only
>> half a solution in any regard.
>
> I've written a test case to isolate this behavior, and if somebody  
> would
> be so kind as to give me write access to SVN then I can go ahead and
> make the change and commit it.


Thanks for doing that.

BTW. I'm about to go black for a couple of days, I'll resurface  
sometime next week once I arrive in SF.  I'll try and respond to the  
rest of your email then.

Andrae

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Andrae Muys
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Senior RDF/SemanticWeb Consultant
Netymon Pty Ltd